HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 289 318
Rank change year-on-year -110 +29 +26
Contract jobs citing HP 44 75 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.55% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.52% 1.20% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 51
10th Percentile £154 £179 £135
25th Percentile £177 £403 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £604 £608 £491
90th Percentile £650 £696 £550
England median daily rate £375 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -20.21% -1.05% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 6
10th Percentile £18.07 - -
25th Percentile £18.96 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +19.96% -1.18%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.85 £25.11 £18.13
% change year-on-year -20.96% +38.51% -22.85%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,514 6,239 6,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.30% 46.01% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,544 4,061 4,735
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 126 88
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.25 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.56 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.17% -16.17% -20.00%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -31 8 £563 +12.55% 2
West London -12 5 £145 - 1
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) SAS
4 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.64%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.82%) IaaS
6 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.82%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) OCI
7 1 (2.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Firewall
2 8 (18.18%) DHCP
2 8 (18.18%) DNS
3 5 (11.36%) VPN
4 4 (9.09%) LAN
4 4 (9.09%) Network Security
4 4 (9.09%) SMTP
4 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 4 (9.09%) WAN
4 4 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.27%) IPsec
5 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.27%) SSL
5 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.09%) Big Data
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.27%) Base SAS
4 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.27%) PowerCenter
4 1 (2.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (2.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (2.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (11.36%) Selenium
3 3 (6.82%) Zephyr
4 2 (4.55%) LoadRunner
4 2 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) TestDirector
5 1 (2.27%) Appium
5 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.27%) HP UFT
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Banking
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.55%) General Ledger
6 2 (4.55%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Legal
7 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Hardware Technician
2 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Support Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Field Service Technician
3 6 (13.64%) Tester
4 5 (11.36%) Data Centre Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Network Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Server Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Test Manager
6 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Break Fix Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Hardware Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.27%) Playwright
3 1 (2.27%) SOAP
3 1 (2.27%) XML
3 1 (2.27%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.09%) Clustering
3 4 (9.09%) iPhone
3 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (9.09%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) Fat Client
4 2 (4.55%) iPad
4 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.55%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.27%) Celerra
5 1 (2.27%) EMC Centera
5 1 (2.27%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.27%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.27%) IBM XIV
5 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.27%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.27%) Symmetrix
5 1 (2.27%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.64%) Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Unix
5 1 (2.27%) AIX
5 1 (2.27%) HPUX
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Solaris
5 1 (2.27%) SUSE
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) DevOps
1 11 (25.00%) Migration
1 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (22.73%) Customer Service
3 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (18.18%) Regression Testing
3 8 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
3 8 (18.18%) Test Management
3 8 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (15.91%) Defect Management
4 7 (15.91%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (15.91%) Test Strategy
5 6 (13.64%) Agile
5 6 (13.64%) AI
5 6 (13.64%) Break/Fix
5 6 (13.64%) Change Management
5 6 (13.64%) ITIL
5 6 (13.64%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (13.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) SAS Macro
3 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
5 1 (2.27%) CCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CISSP
5 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) SLA
2 6 (13.64%) QA
3 5 (11.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) BitLocker
2 4 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (9.09%) Terminal Services
2 4 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.82%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (9.09%) Ansible
3 4 (9.09%) vCenter Server
3 4 (9.09%) vMotion
4 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.82%) Nagios
4 3 (6.82%) Puppet
5 1 (2.27%) Avamar
5 1 (2.27%) Control-M
5 1 (2.27%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) Cisco
2 8 (18.18%) Oracle
2 8 (18.18%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Dell
3 7 (15.91%) IBM
4 5 (11.36%) Zscaler
5 4 (9.09%) Citrix
5 4 (9.09%) Google
5 4 (9.09%) Symantec
6 2 (4.55%) 3PAR
6 2 (4.55%) Apple
6 2 (4.55%) Avaloq
6 2 (4.55%) NetApp
6 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.27%) Isilon
7 1 (2.27%) Meraki
7 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.27%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.27%) Veeam